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Evansville Ratings
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Looks like the only 'wadda-U-know' I see is the flip of WJLT to 4th and "Wolf" to 5th... No surprise that those fractional 'point-somethings' made a show for 'RUL, 'YNG and 'EZK....I will dig further.. "Skippy"
OK... I get some facts... Observe and give my summation....Note: WYNG is listed as a Regent Station, as it is not...It is a Withers Station... Regent gets thirty-six point nine of the market and Southe Central gets a thirty-nine on it's programmed stations an a forty point nine counting the leased LMA'd AM.... One more note...'GBF-AM seems to be doing very well with little or no local News/Talk...
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skippertthomas said:
all access has wyng listed as "ac withers"
Skip: I thought the same thing about WGBF-AM.
While a local presence would be nice, as an Indy-market listener, I'd like to have a reliable signal for Hannity, Savage, and the like (95.9 doesn't count). WGBF is a reliable signal, and has as much syndicated talk as they can stuff on the schedule (plus some "best of" on the weekends). The closest I remember them getting to local was having Lance Wilkerson of News 25 to call the Reitz state championship football game.
While a local presence would be nice, as an Indy-market listener, I'd like to have a reliable signal for Hannity, Savage, and the like (95.9 doesn't count). WGBF is a reliable signal, and has as much syndicated talk as they can stuff on the schedule (plus some "best of" on the weekends). The closest I remember them getting to local was having Lance Wilkerson of News 25 to call the Reitz state championship football game.
Pager said:
Hmmm, what was happening in 1981:
WIKY-FM Beautiful Music
WIKY-AM 820 (Was it already donated to SWI by 81?)
WGBF-AM Sunset of CHR
WKKR-AM Country (A year before finding God and making money with Him as WVHI)
WROZ-AM Country (Now WEOA)
WKDQ-FM CHR
WVHI-FM Religious (A year before becoming "Country Fresh WYNG 105")
WHKC-FM AOR now WGBF-FM
WSTO-FM "Special Music" Lite AC transitioning to flip to CHR in '82
WSON-AM Country or Oldies???
WBNL-A/F Doing their thing
WRAY-A/F Doing their thing
WYER-FM (now WYNG) Some form of Rock
WBKR-FM Country
Feel free to add subtract or multiply the above.
WGBF-FM was doing its Rock 103 thing by '81, wasn't it?
PTBoardOp94 said:
Nope. It was a rock format and sister to WGBF-AM but called KC-103, calls carried over with the sale. A couple of years later it evolved to a CHR. About 1984, the calls were changed to WGBF-FM and called "B-103" doing CHR against STO and the last days of KDQ before AC. The format became rock in 1986 along with the AM simulcast.
I put KC103 on the air in November, 1979, and was there as 7p-mid jock and music director until February, 1981. Original studios were next to a pig farm in Anthoston, 12 miles south of Henderson. In early '80 we moved to new studios on Green St. in "Hinnerson." With a 1,200 song playlist at one time, it was light years better than the GBF-FM of the past 20+ years. They would kill for the ratings we had. As I remember, when local owners took over they changed the locks. That's how employees found out they'd been fired. Nice touch.
Eric... Man that was a smokin' 3kw'er in those days.. Even with the old tower and bad signal into the west end of E'ville (off the old WBIC tower), the ratings for you were great and I would pop home on the weekends just to listen (I was at 'Cil-Fm in Party-dale back then)...KC-103 (WHKC) rocked that little stripmall shopping area on South Green Street!
Pager said:
The Green St building wasn't habitable because of the pee stains on the floor and the smell. No bathroom in the place. "Use the bathroom down the street." A lot of equipmet walked off. This and the bag money exchanges in the parking lot made some employment decisions. The money and paper bag exchanges were cause for concern because of the location and the apparent I don't care attitude.
The old Owner sold the place "assets only" and didn't tell any employees they were not having continued employment. He was supposed to hold a meeting in Evansville day of closing and left 15 minutes before the meeting. New owners got to tell staff because everyone showed up for a meeting and the guy planning the meeting wasn't there.
Classic case of "Station has heritage but has been bleeding money because of large staff and inadequate income." And this was before the multitude of other stations rolled in to town.
Sad to see the once very good WGBF signal carrying maybe to Princeton on a good day.
Anthoston was the place I started deciding how long it had been between transmitter maintenence based on dead mice and their numbers.
Dead Mice divided by x = length of time since the transmitter was cleaned. 12 Mice in the transmitter, even more alive and dead in the building. Add tics. Not physical tics but the blood sucking critters. It's a wonder the tower stood as it was bent. The whole place including Anthoston, Green St, and Washington Avenue was a total pit.
The AM site was maintained well. Despite the old owners not really caring you could tell who was working to their best despite the bad conditions. Thanks Irwin! He really kept the AM in super shape. And he is one of the few employees I expected to see fired that stayed because of what he did under the old and new owners. One of the people I ahve met in radio that didn't really care about anything other than doing his best. I drove by a few months ago and see the AM site is now a storage facility. I don't know how anyone could enter the building with all the boxes and junk in front of the door.
There were some really great people that passed through WGBF in the old days including the non Rockford times.
The Green St. studios/office was postage stamp size but pretty nice when it opened. Trashy people trashed it later. Take a walk through Lincoln and 41 now and tell me pigs didn't live there too. No bathroom at KC, but we had the key to the restaurant next door and all cherry pie we could eat. I'm not aware of any illegal deals taking place in the parking lot (all three spaces,) but John Reiplinger did encourage the imbibing of adult beverages and there was plenty of partying going on during the all-nite album replay. Groupies? Yes, we had a few. We also had a lame AM sales staff unwilling to sell the station since we directly competed with the mothership. As for theft, the only person I recall from personal experience as being a thief was chief engineer John Timm. KC 103 and WGBF-AM died when Metro Radio - Rockford (Nolte) and Bloomington (Tim Ives) - split. Evansville was left with the bad apples. Everyone who was there knows it. I could write a book about those days that would be a lot more interesting than the crap being produced on radio there today.
This thread confused me. I didnt know if was a chat about the Spring 1981 ratings or 2008. Or how big studios were. Sorry to gripe about it, just seems common with the Evansville threads. Gets into a history board quick. Guess not much is happening.
Gotta say though your board is always less hateful as compared to the other big two in Indiana. And Terrible Haute is always juicy. As are most of the itty bitty places.
Gotta say though your board is always less hateful as compared to the other big two in Indiana. And Terrible Haute is always juicy. As are most of the itty bitty places.
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